Down The Research Rabbit Hole

Jeffrey Guhin is an assistant professor of Sociology at UCLA. He holds an MA and MPhil degrees in Sociology from Yale University, and his research interests include education, culture, religion, and theory. You can find out more about Jeffrey's work on his website.

Alex Barnard is an assistant professor of Sociology at New York University. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, an MPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Sociology from Princeton University. His areas of research interest include Medical Sociology and Mental Health, Political Sociology, Comparative Cultural Sociology, Social Policy, Social Theory. You can find out more about Alex's work on his website. 

On this episode, we discuss his book project, Mental States (under contract with Colombia University Press), which looks into how medical and governmental institutions make decisions concerning people living with severe mental illness in France and the USA. 

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Marion Lieutaud is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE). Her areas of interest include gender, migration, quantitative methods, welfare states and border states. You can read about Marion's published work and research in more detail on LSE's Sociology page.  

On this episode, we discuss her dissertation, Gender through Migration, Migration through Gender.

Esha Chatterjee is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University's Department of Sociology specialising in the study of social inequality in the US. She holds an MA and BA degrees in Sociology from Stanford University, USA, and Presidency College, Kolkata, India, respectively. Her research interests include economic sociology, immigration, race and ethnicity, and social inequality and stratification. You can find out more about Esha on Stanford's Sociology Department Page. 

On this episode, we discuss Esha's dissertation topic on how college majors influence gender segregation and income inequality in occupations. 

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Dr. Bindu Menon is a faculty member at Azim Premji University's School of Arts and Sciences, where she teaches Media and Communication. She holds a PhD in Cinema and Cultural Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her teaching interests include Media Theory, Film and Cultural Studies, Cultures of Journalism, Gender and Sexuality and Digital Humanities. She has won numerous fellowships and research grants, some of which are the Fulbright research scholarship at Pennsylvania State University (2003), Charles Wallace Archival Grant (2007) Sarai Fellowship (2005), Spear Grant for Archival research (2010) and the UGC Junior Research Fellowship. You can find out more about Bindu on Azim Premji University's faculty page. 

On this episode, we discuss her work on the gender and labour dynamics in India's cinematic arena. 

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Michael L. Rosino is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Molloy College. His research and teaching focus on racial politics, media, social movements, crime, law and deviance, and human rights. His work emphasizes social change, policy, and community and civic engagement. He has published widely on the connections between racial oppression, struggles for racial equality, political conflicts, debates over public policy, and everyday social life in various scholarly and public outlets. His current research examines how activists within progressive grassroots political organizations engage with racial and political inequality through their identities, habits, and political strategies. The project illuminates the possibilities and barriers for building a racially just and inclusive grassroots democracy and advances new understandings of racial politics grounded in everyday social life. You can find out more about Michael's work on his website. 

In this episode, we discuss his first book, Debating the Drug War: Race, Politics, and the Media with Routledge Press.

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Dr. Alan Martino (he/him) is a faculty member in the Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies program in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. His main research interests are in critical disability studies, gender and sexualities; feminist and critical disability studies theories; qualitative and community-based research (particularly participatory and inclusive research methodologies). His doctoral research examined the romantic and sexual lives of adults with intellectual disabilities in Ontario, Canada, by putting into conversation theories from both the sociology of sexualities and the field of critical disability studies. You can find out more about Alan's work on his website. 

His current research project explores the intimate lives of 2SLGBTQ+ disabled people in Alberta, which we discuss on this episode. 

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Ankur Madan is an associate professor at Azim Premji University's School of Education, where she teaches the MA in Education program. Her primary research interests include Disability Studies and Creative Education. On our twentieth episode, we discuss the scope and nature of inclusive education in India. 

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Sean Bock is a Ph.D. student at Harvard University's Department of Sociology and graduate affiliate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He holds a BA Degree in Sociology and Political Science from Indiana University - Bloomington. His research uses quantitative and computational methods to study topics broadly related to political culture and social change, and recent work focuses on public political polarisation, within-party variation in socio-political attitudes, political behavior, and nationalism in the United States and Western Europe. You can find out more about Sean's work on his website. 

In our latest episode, we discuss his publication Conflicted Religionists: Measuring Political Backlash on Salient Issues. 

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Charis E. Kubrin is a Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and (by courtesy) Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She holds a Ph.D from the University of Washington, and is also a member of the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network. Her research focuses on neighbourhood correlations with crime, especially looking at race and violent crime. One of her lines of research explores the intersection of music, culture, and social identity, particularly as it applies to hip hop and youth of colour in disadvantaged communities, which we broadly discuss on this episode.

You can find out more about her Charis's research work on the UC Irvine faculty page. Be sure to check out her TED Talk, The Threatening Nature of Rap Music, which we specifically discuss on this episode. 

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